Native American/First Nation music: Topics |
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Chicken scratch | Ghost Dance |
Hip hop | Native American flute |
Peyote song | Powwow |
Tribal sounds | |
Arapaho | Blackfoot |
Dene | Innu |
Inuit | Iroquois |
Kiowa | Navajo |
Omaha | Kwakiutl |
Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) | Seminole |
Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) | Yuman |
Related topics | |
Music of the United States - Music of Canada |
The Yuman are a tribe of Native Americans from what is now Southern California. Folk songs in Yuma culture are said to be given to a person while dreaming. Many individuals who are in emotional distress go to a secluded area for a few weeks, there to receive new songs (Herzog, pp. 1-6, cited in Nettl, p. 152).
Source
- Nettl, Bruno (1965). Folk and Traditional Music
of the Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc.
- George Herzog, "Music in the Thinking of the American Indian." Peabody Bulletin, May, 1933
Further reading
- Densmore, Francis (2005). Yuman & Yaqui Music. Scholarly Press. ISBN 0403037379.
Categories: American Indian music